As I mentioned to @hilary-joy.bsky.social some big warehouse firms acquire unsold stock & sell mint condition items at knockdown prices. Eg these four were just over £10 on a ‘four for the price of three’ www.worldofbooks.com/en-gb/produc... Once a month, buy 4-4-3, browse, & donate.

“When we put the Trials of Democracy project together in 2024, we had no idea we’d be delivering it in the world we’re in today” @hilary-joy.bsky.social at the Co-op event in Cambridge Central Library.

On the importance of civic learning and libraries - founded by John Pink (lostcambridge.wordpress.com/2018/01/09/m...) Why in this ‘information age’ was turnout so low? Esp so soon after the centenary of the first votes for women?

World first UK laws will ban AI tools used by predators to blackmail and groom children, the Home Office has announced. Offenders face up to 10 years in prison. “For too long abusers have hidden behind their screens, manipulating technology to commit vile crimes.” Peter Kyle writes ⬇️

💚 weaving my Irish roots and Cambridge reeds Imbolc Blessings May our days be blessed, be brighter be lighter be longer be stronger.. Let Spring come, Let Spring come. With love 💚 #stbrigid #brigidcross #imbolc #cambridge

The Land Use Framework consultation government is launching is necessary and important. We urgently need to make strategic national decisions about what should go where: to restore ecosystems, stop urban flooding and better plan development.

GB News is lashing out because our campaign is working. Let's stop them bringing Trump's playbook to the UK: crowdfunder.co.uk/p/stop-gb-news #StartSpreadingLove #StopFundingHate

A grim but essential memory: 80 years ago today Auschwitz was liberated. That there was an Auschwitz to liberate is unspeakably tragic. . . www.history.com/this-day-in-...

...the following morning you can let it all out with Aunty & Pink from the Menagerie Theatre Co in millennial daytime TV-talkshow style. www.facebook.com/permalink.ph... with @hilary-joy.bsky.social & Patrick Morris.

“Terrible things are happening outside. Poor helpless people are being dragged out of their homes. Families are torn apart. Men, women, and children are separated. Children come home from school to find that their parents have disappeared.” Diary of Anne Frank January 13, 1943

A violent criminal? A threat to society? A danger to democracy? No, no and no. This is someone being punished again and again for giving a damn about humanity and the living world. www.theguardian.com/society/2025...

Brilliant satirical cover from Private Eye, mocking spineless media organisations and journalists who submit and cower in the face of power 👏

86 MPs and their team members now registered to join EveryDoctor’s emergency meeting about the NHS in ten mins. This is incredible and it’s all down to you, thank you so much. We’ll do our best to push for change to safeguard lives and support staff 🚨

“Someone with a 1-hr car commute needs to earn 40% more to be as happy as someone with a short walk to work. On the other hand, if someone shifts from a long commute to a walk, their happiness increases as much as if they’d fallen in love.” #CityMakingMath 50 reasons to want walkable streets.

This might be the most relevant line in pop culture history. #StarWars

Word of day is ‘unasinous’ (17th century): united in stupidity. A riff on ‘unanimous’: which comes from the Latin for ‘one mind’. ‘Unasinous’ means ‘one ass’.

I dedicated years of my life to reporting on January 6 and exposing what happened. I was there that day, co-wrote a book, and published a series of major stories on my own, for Rolling Stone, and for TPM. I hope it mattered. I hope history will remember and understand what happened.

Lord Anderson, "Would the minister agree that any benefits from a trade deal with the US is a fraction of what we have lost from leaving the European Union under Brexit" Lord Leong, "The US is our single largest trading partner" Not true 42% of UK trade with the EU, 15% with the US

Highly recommended for the small number of local eyes that see my page. To get a better world you have to imagine it. Cynics may mock but bluesky thinking has been one of Humanities biggest agents of change.

Word of the day is ‘catch-fart’ (17th century: an obsequious individual who will always follow the political wind.

#Palestine #Gaza #MetPolice Here we see violent terrorists forcing their way through Met Police ranks led by the evil Zack Polanski...

A Fenland Imaginarium at The Heart of March. March Library. Friday 14th and Sat 15th Feb. 10.30 - 4pm Free drop in. Open to all! Because how can we create a greener, fairer and more connected future if we can’t begin to imagine it…?

I’m thrilled to be developing this collaborative project and taking The Imaginarium to #Fenland ! First event will be at March Library on 14th and 15th of February. Imaginarium Artist in Residence for Carbon Footprint ♥️ #imagination #climateaction #communityartist #theheartofmarch

Let’s be a bit careful - non-EU people can still be RESIDENT in the EU. This isn’t a tax on immigrants’ homes, it’s a tax on holiday homes. Other than that, yes I agree. We should be looking at bold progressive taxation like this. Why don’t we have one on second homes for a start?

World leaders don't usually get invited to US presidential inaugurations. Trump has broken with the tradition to invite: Comrade Xi Giorgia Meloni Crazy Javier Milei And former Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro. THAT is the story. But once again right are desperate to make it about Starmer

The Greens, the LibDems, Plaid Cymru, all did better at the last election than ever. They all have very good, progressive immigration policies. Nobody has a clue what they are though. The media only GAF about anti-migrant politics.

“Coercive control destroys lives, yet sentences like Hogg’s ultimately fail to reflect that reality. These are missed opportunities, time and again, to hold abusers accountable and to challenge the perception that coercive control is anything less than serious criminal behaviour.”

What message does it send when men like Stuart Hogg, seen as role models, walk free after years of abuse? Role models must be held to account, not shielded by leniency. This was a prize chance to show these acts are serious with serious consequences.

We’re never going to fix the NHS when campaigners are labelled as ‘firebrands’ or ‘outspoken’. I’m so fed up of turning up at social things and being described like this by people introducing me. I’m not a firebrand. I’m the tamest person you’ll ever meet. I just want people to receive good care.

When local residents told us that having no bus meant dangerous walks along the A1, we acted. In the summer, Mayor Nik and I were able to travel with the campaigners on one of the first buses on the new CPCA-funded route from Peterborough to Stamford. #AdventCalendar Day 17

“Everyone in positions of influence should ask themselves the question: are you treating those fighting to save the planet more harshly than those fighting for inherited wealth? If so, why?” @josiah.writes.news bylinetimes.com/2024/12/12/t...

Only in a year where #GiselePélicot holds 50 men who raped her to account does a rapist President get named Person of the Year (for the second time). The message is clear: misogyny rewards power, while survivors like Gisele fight to ensure #ShameMustChangeSides.

I’m not a Syrian refugee anymore. I’m Syrian. Just Syrian.

Meanwhile over in “the other place” a Reform party MP is actually threatening to shut down the BBC - a public service broadcaster - because a political satire show made fun of party leader NigelFarage We can never allow this dangerous bunch anywhere near power

At the Commons vote on #farming , which Reform claim to champion, due to some oversight Mr Farage & all his brothers in Christ missed it. Mr Farage was busy courting billionaires &, bizarrely, condemning semi-skimmed milk as “left wing”. #PecksniffsDiary

3/ Second, our 'job' as environmental communicators, advocates and activists is not to get people to care about climate and nature, because they probably already do. Rather, the task is to help them realise their agency, empower them to take action, and then facilitate that.

DVPOs, criticised as "not worth the paper they're written on," are now being replaced with new Notices (DAPNs) and Orders(DAPOs). These aim to provide stronger, longer-lasting protections, but questions remain: will police use them and will they be enough to stop violent, repeat offenders?

One of the big lobbying interests has set up a 'Development Corporation sub-group' ...which is nice. Given how difficult it has been trying to get any information out of the Government over its plans for such a thing for #Cambridge.

NEW BLOGPOST: "Sir Keir’s Milestones for Mission Led Government" cambridgetownowl.com/2024/12/06/s... ...and on former ministers who really should know better when it comes to declaring their interests in Parliament before putting oral questions to the Government.

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These new measures to safeguard stalking victims are long overdue and a step in the right direction. Revealing online stalkers’ identities sooner, expanding protection orders, and tackling gaps in police response are crucial for victims’ safety.

🧵 Oh dear, ‘Top bloke’ narratives already deployed for #GreggWallace… ‘The Gregg I know,’ starts William Sitwell in his latest column. Well, that’s the point isn’t. The men we think we know aren’t always the ‘top blokes’ they present themselves as, are they?

Celebrating Tree Charter Day with the Fantastical Forest in Wandlebury Woods 💚🌳💚 www.cambridgeppf.org/event/fantastical-forest-exhibition-2024-celebrating-tree-charter-day

It’s always either: “I know he’s a sick twisted abuser but, y’know what? I really like that song of his.” Or “I don’t believe these women, they’re out for a payday, I’m playing this in solidarity with him.”

‪Yet, this is a govt four months in, daring those in policing to meet the seismic cultural changes needed to ensure this works, and that victims can build trust with them.‬ ‪Change doesn’t happen overnight, but we all want to see this succeed.‬ ➡️ www.theguardian.com/society/2024...

With statements by the new Conservative opposition highlighting shortcomings on things like gathering evidence/collecting data, the inevitable response is: "Why didn't you do what you were calling for when you were in government?"

#Motherfrackers www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Kemi Badenoch at #PMQs: "We had a budget in March this year and tractors were not blockading the streets of Whitehall afterwards." Here are the tractors blockading the streets of Whitehall in March this year. They were protesting - you really couldn't make this up - Badenoch's trade policies. 😂

The Fantastical Forest will be in Wandlebury Woods this Saturday - our 5th year celebrating #treecharterday here 💚 🌳 now over 120 community made hangings created alongside #cambridge People and #Trees 💚 🌳 cambridgecandi.org.uk/our-work/communities/fantastical-forest #nature #art